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Andrew Jeanes

@wanderoo.bsky.social
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Still trying every day to learn something from the past, survive the present, and figure out how to make a better future. Also, I like trains.

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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 2h
I don't get to gossip with my sister about the outcome of the Quebec election and that's making me miss her more than usual today.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 5h
I only just read @seanyyz.bsky.social's blog post from August about "Why Kingston Needs a New Station" (VIA Rail station, that is). seanmarshall.ca/2026/08/25/w... I agree with most of his argument, and he got the general historical background (going back to the 1850s) right as well. Worth reading!
seanmarshall.ca
Why Kingston needs a new VIA station
Kingston’s geography and decisions made by CN are largely to blame for Kingston Station’s isolation, but the future of VIA’s existing rail services demands a better solution. Alto…
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nearly four decades before she published her famous exposé of the Southern plantation system, English actress (& train aficionado) Fanny Kemble visited & wrote about the nation’s first commercial train, the Massachusetts Granite Railway. That & much more in today’s post! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Yeah, I do a little modelling in my spare time."
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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yesterday there was a big event called the "Ontario Intercity Travel Summit" at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, with VIPs from the governments of Ontario and Canada, Air Canada, VIA, Metrolinx, Alto, etc. I have seen zero media coverage of this event. transportfutures.ca/ONintercity/
A kind of overwrought (though possibly not AI-generated) image from the Transport Futures project website—they were the organizer of the Ontario Intercity Travel Summit. The image features a bunch of icons representing different travel modes and considerations (air, rail, busses, trucks, bicycles, parking, fuel, etc.) in circles connected with lines, all overlaid on a background of an elevated expressway passing through a big city with lots of tall buildings and the sun rising or setting behind. Superimposed over everything are the words "advancing mobility pricing, infrastructure and multimodal solutions together." It's a lot, y'all.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All they need is a charismatic but highly eccentric British army officer to... No, wait, I'm getting an update from my producer...
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man, why is Toronto politics such a...? Well, you know.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you're going to have a death penalty, it should be done with a bullet to the back of the head, and the judge who delivered the death sentence should be the one who has to pull the trigger.
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Brent E. Huffman @brenthuffman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please join me on Friday November 6th @buffett.northwestern.edu when I talk about my work in #Yemen documenting courageous women working to save threatened cultural heritage during the war. I will show a clip from the work-in-progress documentary: events.humanitix.com/the-yemeni-w...
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 29/09/2026
Here’s the thing about white supremacy in BC today: The Premier and opposition party have spent the last year saying “First Nations are coming for your homes. Private property is sacrosanct.” These politicians deny such statements are stoking racist backlash. But they are
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I gasped! The Mighty Sparrow has left us. One of the most important and popular Calypsonians to ever do it! Songs filled political fire, irreverence, humor, naughty (very, very naughty) banter, and beats that make you wind your waist! Rest in Power, Sparrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...
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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91
He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It must be so cool seeing leaders actually do shit for you.
bloomberg.com
Lula to Ban Online Betting, Offer Debt Relief Before Election
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will sign two provisional measures on Friday, one banning online betting and another aimed at renegotiating individual debts, according to two people with knowledge...
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wish the ring lived up to its legend, but we do still have some unethical engineers in Canada, who mock the ring by wearing it.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still waiting for somebody to come into this thread like
Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My dad splurged and got a CGA card and RGB monitor, but otherwise my first childhood home computer looked exactly like this. It used the IBM PC DOS operating system.
An IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 with Model F 84-key keyboard, Model 5151 monochrome CRT display and Model 5152 dot-matrix printer, first released in 1981.
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
hmmm Sam Altman reminds me of a certain other dystopian business exec obsessed with the illegal procurement of Hugging Face
Paul Reiser's slimy business executive character Carter Burke in the movie Aliens
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
RIP Gerritt Graham (Movie: Demon Seed, 1977) youtu.be/0yC4kLI-C1c?...
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"Death is a gentleman, too..."
YouTube video by The Beautiful Puffin
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
<Teddy Riley Beats> This is Howie Buffett </Teddy Riley Beats>
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 17/09/2026
Jeep parent Stellantis told workers at a Toronto-area factory that it sees “no long-term business case” for making vehicles there
bloom.bg
Stellantis Tells Workers at Canada Plant It Has No Future There
Jeep parent Stellantis NV told workers at a Toronto-area factory that it sees “no long-term business case” for making vehicles there and that it’s exploring a sale of the facility, increasing the likelihood of a work stoppage.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gonna try to take some heat off of @maxfawcett.bsky.social by saying this: the Constitution of the United States of America sucks. It's a piece of shit document drafted by piece of shit people. You guys couldn't even come up with a notwithstanding clause and you still fucked the whole thing up!
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Toronto Mike @torontomike.com · 17/09/2026
Thanks to Andy Donato's cousin, I have Andy's final editorial cartoon that was rejected by The Toronto Sun, resulting in Andy resigning from the paper after 55 years. www.torontomike.com/2026/09/andy...
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Andy Donato's Final Comic Rejected by Postmedia
On Wednesday I shared the sad news that Andy Donato had passed away at the age of 89. Until very recently, Andy was still getting published in The Toronto Sun, a Postmedia-owned newspaper. I attached ...
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tonight I learned far more than I ever wanted to about Silicon Valley neo-Mansonite/Scientologist/NXIVM wannabes who fear and worship SkyNet. I need a shower, and maybe a lobotomy.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm working my way up to calling people "slick."
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 16/09/2026
Explain AuDHD to me Ok
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
OK, if this is going to blow up my notifications this much I'm going to fess up and say that I have, in fact, written the book about these guys, and it's even a pretty good book if I may say so myself. www.amazon.com/Neoreaction-...
amazon.com
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right - Kindle edition by Sandifer, Elizabeth, Graham, Jack. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 16/09/2026
Tfw you have a big viral tweet about a different book than the one you’re promoting.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I hope the cook has recovered from his hangover.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The old world is dying and the new world is yet to be born. Now it's time for a breakdown. youtu.be/BVeZnsuY7Vc?...
youtu.be
Never gonna get it (En Vogue - My loving' [breakdown])
YouTube video by lillylycos
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Robb Barnes 🇨🇦 @robb-barnes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is from Environment Canada's new report on climate impacts. This report was quietly released today, with the minister not available for comment. This should be required reading for everyone in Canada. The climate crisis is here. Every action we take matters.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My new thing this morning is that I think there should be a referendum on changing the name of Kitchener back to Berlin.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Boldly asking the question, what if the federal government doesn't subsidize gas-powered private vehicle use *enough*?
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Who knows, now that Canada is getting some new long distance passenger rail equipment, maybe Canadian teams will start winning the Stanley Cup again?
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sobering, insightful essay on how chatbots mangle historical primary sources. 🗃 www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
hnn.us
AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 03/09/2026
Ottawa spending $4.7B on new made-in-Canada Via Rail passenger cars nationalnewswatch.com/2026/09/03/c...
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Ottawa spending $4.7B on new made-in-Canada Via Rail passenger cars
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@lindsaytedds.bsky.social Do you have any recommendations for an economist who writes about physical infrastructure costs (roads, rails, pipes, wires), specifically?
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Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🌟 well, now I’ve done it—made New Yorker magazine.. a whale of a cartoon! 🐳 a wonderful part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of my Singable Songs album. 🎉
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The devil take the most hinds.
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's kind of amazing to me how many tools are available today for land surveying and route planning for infrastructure projects like the Alto high speed rail line that didn't exist when the last significant new railway was built in Ontario: satellite imagery, LIDAR, ground penetrating radar, etc.
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 01/09/2026
“Black pointed to the old courthouse in Bastion Square, which has heritage value & no designation. It has been sitting empty since 2015. “This further reinforces the point that the province has tried nothing & are all out of ideas regarding provincial heritage”” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/o...
timescolonist.com
Owner of Emily Carr's boarding house pushes province to assist in repairs
The province says it doesn’t fund repairs for privately owned properties.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Chelsea Vowel is someone whose work you know, even if you don't know it's from her. She's someone who has influenced Canadian politics as a whole for a decade and is in need of support, if you are able.
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WIRED @wired.com · 31/08/2026
Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as the US border wall is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites in Texas, many of which haven’t been fully studied. wrd.cm/46s8TtK
wired.com
Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands
Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as border wall construction is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites, many of which haven’t been fully studied.
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 30/08/2026
Per the place where I go to get my brows threaded, the government of Nepal has set up a disaster relief fund here pmdrf.nchl.com.np
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Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund – Government of Nepal
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Introduce yourself with five artists you've seen at least twice The Tragically Hip Michelle Shocked Fugazi The Shuffle Demons Kid Koala
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Andrew Jeanes @wanderoo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm a coaster enthusiast. I love dirty British things described in verse by John Masefield. web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/po...
web.cs.dal.ca
'Cargoes' - John Masefield
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Nah, this fire
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